On Tuesday 18 March 2003 23:39, Patrick Gundlach wrote:
> > \setupencoding[default=8r]
> >
> > what is the advantage of using 8r instead of ec or texnansi?
>
> It is a matter of taste and the characters you need. There is no big
> difference for my german and english texts.
(snip)
> Sometimes I need glyphs that are encoded in 8r but not in ec (euro sign
> for example). I never use glyphs that are encoded in ec but not in
> 8r.
But the disadvantage of 8r is that in most languages the line-breaking
algorithm performs badly. Take the dutch "verifi\"{e}ren". If the hyphenation
patterns are set up correctly, it should break like "ve-ri-fi-e-ren" (hope I
got this right ;-), and you should loose the accent.
you can verify this by using \showhyphens{verifi\"{e}ren} in tex. In the log,
the possible word breaks will be shown.
In the default 8r it doesn't break correcly, near the accent. In ec it does
break well. I don't know about texnansi.
I'm sure others can give better examples, and explain why the wordbreaking
doesn't work correctly.
Kind regards,
Maarten Sneep
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